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  <h1>Customize Welcome Dialog</h1>
  <p class="Para">The Customize Welcome dialog which is opened using the "customize page" button above the Welcome
  screen allows you to modify the welcome appearance and content. You can select an overall theme, decide which pages
  will be available, and configure the order, layout, and visibility of the items within pages.</p>
  <p><em>Note: The customize page button will only appear when the product is configured to use the Universal
  Welcome</em>.</p>
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          <p class="Para">Option</p>
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          <p class="Para">Description</p>
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          <p class="Para">Default</p>
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      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Home Page Theme</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">This option will change the overall appearance of
      welcome.</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Circles</span></th>
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      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Root Pages</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Select the welcome pages you would like to see in
      welcome.</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Overview, Tutorials, Samples, What's New</span></th>
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      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Apply settings to all products sharing this workbench</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">If you have multiple products sharing the same eclipse workbench,
      using this option will cause the changes for all of them, as opposed to only the currently running
      product.</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Off</span></th>
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      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Save As...</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Converts the current preferences in this page to XML content
      compatible with the <code>introData.xml</code> format used to define the defaults for a product's welcome
      configuration. This is meant for product developers and assemblers, and is not needed by end users.</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></th>
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      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Available Extensions</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Items in this container will not be shown in the selected welcome
      page.</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></th>
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      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Left Column</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Items that should appear in the left half of the selected welcome
      page, arranged vertically from top to bottom. The bottom containers are explained below the table.</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></th>
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      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Right Column</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Items that should appear in the right half of the selected
      welcome page, arranged vertically from top to bottom. The bottom containers are explained below the
      table.</span></th>
      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></th>
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      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Importance</span></th>
      <th align="left">
        <span style="font-weight: 400">The importance is shown as an icon next to the item, and determines the item's
        importance relative to others. Themes may use this information to present the items differently, depending on
        their importance. To change the importance, click on the icon and a drop down menu will appear. The possible
        settings are:</span>
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          <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>low</b> - The item will not be emphasized.</span></li>
          <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>medium</b> - The item will be given some emphasis.</span></li>
          <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>high</b> - The item will be strongly emphasized.</span></li>
          <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>new</b> - The item is new and will be presented as such.</span></li>
          <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>callout</b> - The item is of a different nature, or is special in some
          way (e.g. a video/animation)</span></li>
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      <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">low</span></th>
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  <p>For each page, there are four quadrants in which to place items; two for each column. The quadrants will be
  separated in the presentation, and are used to classify distinct groups of items that should be kept separate from
  each other. If you do not want to separate items into four quadrants and only have columns, place all items in the
  top two quadrants.</p>
  <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/welcome.htm">Welcome</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="../tasks/welcome.htm">Customizing Welcome</a>
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